Half a month later.
Liu Yunshu and Li Qingfeng were gathered around a half-person-high bluestone, discussing something. A small group of monks were scattered around them, sitting or standing. Several of them were holding some dark meat in their hands, chewing it and swallowing it with water.
"South of Bingshan Mountain, east of Jishan Mountain, down the Yi River..."
On the bluestone in front of Li Qingfeng and Liu Yunshu, there was a map with many writing marks on it. At this time, Li Qingfeng was frowning, and the fingers of his right hand were lightly tapping on the map and sliding slowly.
The "Bingshan", "Jishan" and so on in his mouth refer to the place names on the map. Since these places have no names, they use "A, B, Bing, Ding" as their temporary names.
"Fairy Liu, this should be the only place left." His finger stopped at the lower right corner of the map, and he tapped it lightly. He looked up at Liu Yunshu, "After exploring this place, we can go back."
In the past half month, they have traveled through most of the areas they wanted to explore on this trip. Except for one place that was too dangerous, they had already drawn a rough topographic map and nearby monsters. distribution and so on. Now, only the valley in front of them remained unexplored. In other words, as long as this part of the map was completed, they could return to the frontline camp.
Liu Yunshu stretched out a hand and drew on the map, nodded slightly, exhaled, and said with some joy: "Yes, it's really not easy."
In the past half month, the dangers they encountered were no less than before. Once, they even disturbed a demon beast in the blood refining stage. Fortunately, the demon beast seemed unwilling to stray too far from its nest and did not chase it out. After a while, he turned around and left, allowing everyone to escape.
But even so, they still lost two monks. The team of nearly 20 people when they set out, only 11 people were left in just one and a half months, and all of these 11 people were injured, even if It was Li Qingfeng, with several scars left on his body by monsters.
Liu Yunshu raised his head and looked at the mouth of the valley not far ahead, then turned to look at the monks who were resting behind them. Liu Yunshu frowned slightly, looked at Li Qingfeng and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, everyone is here this time." We're injured, but you and I are in relatively good condition, so why don't we two go into the valley to explore first?"
In the past month and a half, Li Qingfeng has proven his strength. Except for him and Liu Yunshu, no one in the team can single-handedly forge late-stage monsters; and when it comes to exploring secret realms, he can always put forward some correct opinions and ideas. There are many more, such as how to go, what to do when encountering any situation, etc. So much so that now, Liu Yunshu will discuss things with him when she encounters them, while Zhuang Zhixue, Yao Ziyi and others who were with her before basically only listen and execute orders.
Li Qingfeng turned his attention to the group of monks. Several of them were lying down and being taken care of. The one on the far left leaning against the dead wood was Li Yuming.
In an encounter with a monster the day before yesterday, Li Yuming helped Wen Hong block a blow. Now he was seriously injured, with half of his body wrapped in white cloth. To be honest, for such a serious injury, if Li Qingfeng hadn't tried his best to treat him, and if Li Yuming had practiced body training and was strong, he would have died.
But even so, his physical condition was quite bad. Not only was he injured, but the yin energy in his body also recurred. What's worse is that after a month and a half of marching, there are not many medicinal pills and talismans left in the team for healing, and they must be saved for those with fighting ability. The only way now is to complete the task early and return to Go back to Daying for treatment.
"Okay, let's go for a walk."
Li Qingfeng nodded and looked at Liu Yunshu: "However, it is a bit too dangerous to let them stay here. I have a set of formations with me. I can find a place to set them up for everyone to rest."
"No problem," Liu Yunshu also nodded, raising his hand and pointing to the left side of the valley entrance, "Why don't we just stay there. We can still have some cover outside, which can be considered concealed."
The direction of her finger was a depression on the mountain wall. It was not a cave. You could see the deepest part at a glance. It might have been knocked out by some monster before. But Li Qingfeng didn't care where it came from. This place could accommodate the rest of them, and it was close to the mountain wall, which matched the attributes of the earth-attribute defensive formation he brought, which was perfect.
"Okay, just be there."
Li Qingfeng agreed, and the two gathered all the remaining team members, explained their decision to them, and took everyone to the depression to rest. When Li Qingfeng and Liu Yunshu were away, the team was commanded by Zhuang Zhixue and Yao Ziyi. Although Wenhong was also a late-stage Qi practitioner, his strength and prestige were far inferior to the first two. Therefore, Li Qingfeng was not interested in such Arrangement, no comments.
But before entering the valley, he gave Wenhong a few more words, asking Wenhong to pay attention. If something happened, he would give priority to protecting his own people. If the situation was critical, he would sell it before running away. In this regard, Wen Hong said that he understood that he was a veteran. Although they had gotten along well with the people of Jindingmen in the past month and a half, they were two families after all, so they still had to be vigilant.
After the explanation, Li Qingfeng arranged the defensive formation and flew towards the valley together with Liu Yunshu.
Due to the unknown situation in the valley, the two of them flew at a very low altitude, only about three to five feet above the ground, and their flying speed was not very fast. Both of them held swords in a defensive posture, and Liu Yunshu also held a pistol in his hand. The compass, which is larger than the palm of your hand, is a magic weapon used to detect the presence of demonic power. It can detect the presence of large groups of demonic beasts or high-level demonic beasts within a certain distance. It is the standard equipment of each team under the Xuantian Sword Sect.
While flying, Li Qingfeng was writing and drawing on the map - this was not the one they marked before. They had many spare maps, which were all drawn and placed on each member of the team in case of accidents. Lost due to special circumstances.
There seemed to be no monsters in the valley. It had been almost half an hour since the two people came in. They didn't encounter any monsters, but the reaction of the compass was a bit strange. The pointer swayed left and right. It was probably affected by someone here. reasons for the ban.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Li Qingfeng paused and let out a slight sigh. Liu Yunshu turned her head and glanced at him, leaned over and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Qingfeng looked ahead, turned his head and said to her: "There seems to be spiritual power fluctuations ahead, let's be careful."
"Okay." Although he didn't feel any spiritual power fluctuations at all, Liu Yunshu didn't ask any more questions. He just put the compass into his storage bag and nodded in agreement. During the previous month and a half, Li Qingfeng had already demonstrated his ability in this area. If he said there were spiritual power fluctuations, then there must be spiritual power fluctuations.
